When was the first time you realized that a teacher can't always be right?
Robert Iodice, Worked in Higher Education for decades
Updated 9w ago
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In first grade:
Our teacher asked, "Who has a birthday in January?" and I raised my hand. She said, "Is your birthday in January, Robert?"
I responded, "No, but my father's is!"
With a stern tone she scolded, "I meant 'Who in this class has a birthday in January?'"
A little annoyed I replied, "Well, then, maybe you should have said that?" at which point she promptly ordered me out of the classroom!
Apparently this teacher had real problems expressing what she really meant. By ordering me out of her classroom she actually wanted me to wait for her in the hallway so that she could lecture me - BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT SHE SAID!
As a result I left and walked home, upset to think that I had barely started school and now I was thrown out, so what was I going to do with the rest of my life now that school was off the table!
After I got home my mother explained how the teacher was wrong. (The school had already called her, the police had been notified to "be on the lookout" for me, and the entire eighth grade had been let out early to canvass our town.)
It was, to say the least, a real eye-opener and a cautionary tale that I remembered from then on - Sometimes the people who are supposed to 'know', DON'T!
Vocabularies：
at which point：此时；
lecture：演讲、讲课、教训；
now that：既然、由于；
canvass：v. go around an area asking (people) for (political support) （在政治方面）游说；详细检查（We expanded the canvass a few more blocks. 我们扩展了搜寻的范围，再多几个街区）；
eye-opener：n. 使人惊奇的事物、打开眼界的事物；
cautionary：adj. 提醒注意的、告诫的；
Sometimes the people are supposed to 'know', actually they know nothing.
